Last week, the Gawker Media overlords told site editors that this new open comment system (the one whereby you — yes, you — can leave a comment, pick a username and password, and get invited to the exclusive comments club based on that comment's merit) is all well and good, but it's time to kick some birds out of the nest.*

So here, in no particular order, are the commenters who will no longer appear on Valleywag (until they get invited again).

  • Neuro: I like your thinking, not your grammar. You're fired.
  • Anonymous, it's against Valleywag policy to purely enjoy the comments of others. Positivity will not be tolerated.
  • Funmeister: Your logic does not compute.
  • Gawker artist Travis Hammond: Fired for that silly iPod art. Also, no one really says "ubik." If I see your art on Valleywag again, I'm calling security.
  • Michael Schurter, I don't get you. Fired.

Frankly, Valleywag commenters are good. I'm just trying to find and kill the boss's pseudonymous comment accounts.

*Not to fly. To fall and snap their necks.